BidFunReviews 117

This site should be renamed"bid torture", if you can actually win the item. I was trying to win a canon t2i camera on this site, sold out in canada in all the stores at x-mas. I seen this site while browsing the net,"recently sold for $8.62", after "bidding" $100 myself, losing, apparently someone else paid over $500 for this item. After doing the math,"bid torture" made approx.$******* on a camera, which took a week to "auction" off with their "robots". Within a couple of minutes they had another one up for "auction"; Did someone actually win this? After observing this site for awhile, I noticed the same names kept winning the more valuable items,"jazzduval", must be a millonaire for what he/she spent on the"robots" for all the items he/she won in "auctions", just to mention 1 name that keeps on winning the "auctions", because there are about 5 names that seem to win everything, and by the way, there have been several t2i cameras up for "auction" within minutes of one being "won". We're any of these actually won? We're any actually delivered?..."Bid-torture" or BIDFUN sure seems like a well thought out SCAM!

AUCTION GOERS BEWARE!

I was so stupid to use this website. I spend $50 just to bid. I thought I won but always someone or the same person appears and bit over again that add some more time and seems the bitting time gover forever. Really time consuming. If you are honest person and no time for this kind of bull$#*! this site is not for you. I am very happy with eBay. This site is scam, stay away from this. One bit costs you $1 and can't refund the money for the points once you bought them.

RE: The point made by Shauna R about losing your money in a raffle and not complaining, is that people who run 'raffles' call them 'raffles'. The punters know from the outset where they stand. Bidfun runs a raffle and calls it an 'auction' so there is quite deliberate trickery and deceit going on here. When I told Bidfun it was a disgrace they were running a raffle under the guise of an auction, they said that according to Wikipedia there are 'many kinds of auction'. Just a big smokescreen to cover themselves. Just the name 'Bidfun' gives it away. People buy lottery tickets, play poker machines and roulette for 'fun'. Their claim to be an auction is a joke, and PayPal should wake up to themselves for facilitating payments to these shonks.

I came upon the. Com site late one night and when I went to enter was directed to the. com.au, local site. I decided to purchase $50 worth of bids on the Australian site and have a go. I started by looking closely at the bidding process and watching how this worked which in hind site I should have done first.
I was amazed at the speed and placing of the bids. Also, how once the counter reached "zero", the counter went into "checking" mode. In every "checking" situation I observed, other bids were then accepted. This is explained in the FAQs as checking different servers for bids.
After further checking I discovered that the three sites,. Uk,. Com and. com.au are actually all the same site, auctioning the same items. This means you are actually bidding against the rest of the world for any one item.
I didn't like what I had seen and decided to take my money out of the site before I had even placed a bid. This didn't happen as the site refused to refund. I then noticed that the site is "certified" by Paypal and opened a dispute through them. The reasons I gave for claiming a refund was the deceptive and misleading way in which the site infers it is a seperate Australian site by taking you to the. com.au site when in fact it is all the same site. This also went nowhere and I suspect there may be a closer relationship then obvious.
As others have observed the money this site is making is huge. The Australian site costs $1 for a bid which increases the item cost by 2 cents and the countdown timer by 20 seconds. Individuals may end up paying $20 to $100 for a "$700" item. Remember the price quoted is "recommended retail" and at $50 made for each $1 in auction price, the actual amount paid is $1020 to $5,100. The amount of bids plus the amount actually bid. I recently saw an "$820" IPad sold for $368.34. This equates to $18,417 for the bids placed plus $368.34, equalling $18,785.34. Unbelievable. When you have a worldwide auction audience there is no such thing as a "quite time" or "slow time" due to the different time zones.
Is it legal? - Possibly
Is it deceptive and misleading? - I believe, definitely

It sounds very unethical after reading all the comments and I wish I did so before I spent my money. I think great if you win the item for less money however not great that dummy auto bids are set up as thats very malicious and the site needs to be shut down. I think if the company is making massive profits on the items sold; great for them but not if they are bluffing consumers with dummy bids and the time the auction goes for is ridiculous. I have been on since this morning and the bids are still flying in 8 hours later on particular items... Where is the consumer watch dog?

I agree with an earlier post on this site... not a scam just a very clever way to pander to our greed and cheapness... that inner gambler or risk taker in us all... I spent $100 (not all gone yet but close) to watch the scramble for success while the site owners slept the widgets were making money... oodles of money... so paly on or go and play the slots at the local casino... not much difference but realize you're not being scammed your simply playing the odds

Don't waste your money. Allows you to use paypal or cred card to buy first bidding points. When those run out, they want you to enter a bank acct. It cost me more than several points before I understood the only way to possibly win. Even then, with my 1 point left I placed a very high bid on an item, clicked to possibly buy more points, then when I clicked back to item, I no longer had a "robot" bid and no points. My placed bid was still more than $35 than the ongoing bidding price. SCAM imho!